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KMID : 0367320050160010047
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Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
2005 Volume.16 No. 1 p.47 ~ p.53
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PARENTAL ATTACHMENT STYLES AND PSYCHIATRIC MANIFESTATIONS IN THEIR 4{th} TO 6{th} GRADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN
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Yoo Han-Ik
Hwang Jun-Won
Kim Bung-Nyun
Shin Min-Sup
Hong Kang-E
Cho Soo-Churl
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Abstract
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Objectives: Few studies have examined the relation between the attachment styles of the primary caregivers and the behavioral problems of their children. This study was performed to identify the impact of the insecure parental attachment patterns on the development of their higher grades elementary school children’’s psychiatric manifestations and disorders.
Methods: 504 higher elementary pupils and their primary caretakers were included in our study. Relationship Questionnaire, Kovacs Children’’s Depression Inventory, Spielberger’’s State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for children, and Korean Child Behavior Checklist were applied to them.
Results: The grade-school children of the parents who belonged to preoccupied attachment type revealed higher Withdrawn, Anxious/depressed, Social Problems, Attention Problems, Delinquent Problems, Aggressive Problems, Internalizing Problems, Externalizing Problems, Total Behavioral Problems scores than ones of securely attached parents (p<0.01). Internalizing Problems score of preoccupied parents’’ children was highest, and one of avoidant and secure typed parents’’ kids followed in order (p=0.004) . More youngsters revealed Total Behavior Problem score high enough to clinically meaningful level in insecure parental attachment style than in secure one (p=0.038). Higher CDI score in insecure parental group was reported than in secure one (p=0.040).
Conclusion: Parental insecure attachment can be associated with the development of the behavioral problems and psychiatric illness of their children.
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KEYWORD
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Parenting Parental attachment, Psychopathology
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